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Visual Studio 2015 One Environment for Building Multi-Platform Apps Grey Matter Issue 67 | Winter 2015 Building on 32 years of software know how Visual Studio 2015 One environment for building multi-platform apps Safety first Backup options for the modern world Software in education The new curriculum: teaching code in schools See page 8 WIN! for details Contents Welcome 4 Software News Embarcadero,Flexera, Intel, Microsoft and more. Editorial There are some things we’re happy to pay for, and some things 7 News in brief Editor: .....................................................................Matt Nicholson we’re not, and in the digital world, there’s little rhyme or Technical editors: .. Sean Wilson, Paul Edwards and competition winners. reason between the two. I am quite happy to pay the BBC nearly £150 Editorial advisor: ............................................Julia Hopkins 8 Competition News editor: ...................................................... Paul Stephens a year for the privilege of watching a handful of TV channels without Publisher: ..................................................................Andrew King being interrupted by inane advertising, and up until just a few years Win a Sony camcorder! Contributors: ....................................................Tim Anderson, Simon Bisson, Mary Branscombe, Jon ago, there were enough people prepared to pay for mobile phone Honeyball, Graham Keitch, Paul Stephens ringtones to create a billion dollar industry. And yet we still seem 10 Visual Studio 2015 Design and layout: ..................................... Jason Stanley unwilling to pay anyone for accessing their website, preferring instead Inside this major new Illustration: ............................................................Sholto Walker to enter into an ambiguous and often downright dangerous development platform. Web Design: ........................................................Jason Stanley Marketing: ..............................................................Ash Khagram relationship with a largely unknown collection of marketing companies. Tel: 01364 654100 Walk into a cinema, buy a ticket with cash, and you can watch a Email: [email protected] film without the cinema having any idea who you are. As long as you’ve got a valid ticket, they’re happy. Even if you pay by credit card, HardCopy is edited for Grey Matter three times a year by Matt Publishing. It is printed the cinema would have to take deliberate and indeed illegal steps to by Pepper Communications in Plymouth. intercept the data transferred between you and the credit card company. Buy a ticket through the same cinema’s website, though, Copyright © 2015 Grey Matter Ltd. All rights reserved. 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